BACKGROUND Income is predictive of many health outcomes and is therefore an important potential confounder to control for in studies. However it is often missing or poorly measured in epidemiological studies because of its complexity and sensitivity. This paper presents and validates an alternative approach to the survey collection of reported income through the estimation of a synthetic wage m...

This paper explores the empirical validity of two important issues recently highlighted by disparity society theory in Japan. The first is income disparity and disparity between regular and non-regular workers. It is clear that social stratification theory has not yet analyzed these issues seriously. It has studied occupations rather than income; it has implicitly assumed that workers have regu...

this research is related to power conception and aims to investigate factors affectingwomen`s decision-making power in families. to do this, the resources theory has been reliedon in this research. based on the resources theory, occupation, education, income, job statusand property are the factors related to women`s decision-making power in families. in thisinvestigation, data was collected thr...

A survey was conducted to get an overview and to gather information on the existing and socioeconomic condition of the SIDR affected people and migration. To perform this study data were collected from the three selected village (south Shailkati, Hothkhali and Lahori) affected people by random sampling after selecting the study topic and area. Then the data were processed and analyzed through u...

STUDY OBJECTIVE Differences in the correlation between body mass index and education across four gender and race groups were investigated while simultaneously accounting for occupation, income, marital status, and age. DESIGN The study used analysis of covariance techniques to calculate average body mass and confidence intervals within education categories while simultaneously adjusting for t...

BACKGROUND Bisphenol A (BPA) and polyfluoroalkyl chemicals (PFCs) are suspected endocrine disrupting compounds known to be ubiquitous in people's bodies. Population disparities in exposure to these chemicals have not been fully characterized. METHODS We analyzed data from the 2003-2006 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Using multivariable linear regression we examined the asso...